Friday, September 11, 2020

CD 411 - Leafy Thinking of You

Welcome to Colour Dare Challenge # 411!

The new Core catalog has been released for Close To My Heart and there are 8 colours that are retiring. This challenge gives you one last chance to use those colours as the tic-tac-toe grid includes all of them plus silver and gold. 


My tic-tac-toe is twofold - bottom row and diagonal from top left to bottom right. 

Since the autumn season is upon us with the trees changing here, I decided to use the colours that would work for the changing leaves. The leaves were die cut from an older set of thin cuts and I used the lighter shade of the cardstock for the leaf bases and the darker shade for the overlay. A background of black dots was used along with a piece of Eggplant patterned paper and some Julep glitter paper. The sentiment was embossed with gold embossing powder and placed across two sections of the card. I added some gold embellishing thread, a few gold glitter gems and I also brushed the leaf overlays with the Gold Shimmer Brush. 



Come and join us at Colour Dare and show us how you interpret the grid shown above. 

You have two weeks to link up your project.

We can’t wait to see what you create! 

Products used are Close To My Heart unless otherwise indicated: 

Paper: Mix-In Paper Pack, Documented Paper Pack, White Daisy Cardstock, Black Cardstock, Julep Cardstock, Goldrush Cardstock, Ruby Cardstock, Julep Glitter Paper, Neenah Solar White Cardstock

Stamps: Word Up (Reverse Confetti)

Inks: Versamark

Accessories: Layered Leaves Thin Cuts, Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Tool, Gold Glitter Gems, Gold Embellishing Thread, Gold Shimmer Brush, Thin Foam Tape

Enjoy,

Alyson

7 comments:

  1. Beautiful fall card! Love the shimmer on the leaves.

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  2. Pretty combination of colors and love the polka-dot background... beautiful card.

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  3. Lovely card, Alyson. I really like those touches of sparkle.

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  4. You can never go wrong with colorful leaves. I love the addition of the gold shimmer on the overlay! The strip of Eggplant just makes the whole card POP!

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  5. Beautifully created, Alyson! Fabulous use of the colors and gold thread. This card really stands out as a favorite of mine.

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  6. Great fall card....like the glitter touches!

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